MSI X-Slim X370 Fusion Powered Ultraportable Review

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Gaming Benchmarks

For our next set of
tests, we moved on to some in-game benchmarking with Left 4 Dead 2, Half
Life 2: Episode 2 and Enemy Territory: Quake Wars. When testing processors with HL:E2, L4D2 or
ET:QW, we ran a
pre-recorded demo of each at a resolution of 1280x720. Since
these are more entry-level game tests on highly mobile platforms, we left anti-aliasing turned
off and image quality settings set from moderate to high levels where
possible.

In all of these tests, it's clear who the
winner is: Zacate. Yet again, AMD's Fusion chip has proven to be a real
contender, putting the older Neo platform in the X100e (and the Atom in the 1201N) to shame.
Granted, this APU isn't strong enough to allow hardcore gamers to churn
out high framerates on an external monitor, but it's powerful to
play some of the more modern titles at lower resolutions. For a
sub-$600 machine, we find this pretty impressive. It also shows just how weak the Atom looks
in comparison.